Your music is the Universal Language...the lyrics reach across the whole world. They have brought joy, laughter and smiles in to my life for all these years, Tho you don't know me personally, I call you Friend! Hugs, Lydia

Glad to know you are on the mend! Sorry though that you were ill in the first place. PLEASE take it easy and rest because there are many of us who really do care about your well being!! Have enjoyed your music (and that of the Beatles) for many years and would like to continue to do so for sometime yet!! :) Sadly though I have never been to one of your concerts :( CE LA VIE!! Again I wish you well and I will keep you in my prayers. I am an adoring fan!!

I fell in love with you when I was 10. You came to the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh when I was 11, and my mother said I was too young to venture into the city at night. THIS year, 50 years later, I am finally going to see you in Pittsburgh! Be well, and look for me on July 7...I'm hoping for a hug! xoxoxo

Have a Speedy Recovery Paul! So glad you are doing better! Take Care~Vickie

I am so glad and better knowing you are recovering!. A big kiss frpm Uruguay! . Eugenia.

All The Best

So happy to hear you will enjoy a complete recovery. I have been a fan since I was in 4th grade! (I am now 60 with 4 kids and 7 grandchildren. I danced and sang your songs with all my babies! They love you too! Take care! All God's greatest blessings... Debbie

Paul, thank god that you're recovering. I feel so relieved, I love you very much!

I send a big hug from Argentina.

Glad to hear you are on the mend. Please take it easy. From a Yankee Guy down under

Sending you best wishes for a full recovery. You have been part of my life for 55 years,and I want all the best for you and all the happiness in the world. You are a genius and an inspiration to us all.

THE WHITE ALBUM CONCERT Shows Announced for Canberra & Wollongong, July 13-26- Monday, May 19, 2014

With seven shows around the country already announced and selling fast, two new cities have been added to the White Album Concert National Tour, with performances in Canberra on 22 July and in Wollongong on 23 July.

The White Album Concerts feature four of Australia's greatest rock'n'roll showmen - Chris Cheney, The Living End, Phil Jamieson of Grinspoon, Tim Rogers from You Am I and ARIA award winner singer/songwriter Josh Pyke performing the entire album with an all-star 17 piece rock orchestra. The Beatles' most challenging and stylistically varied collection of songs has been taken apart and reassembled track by track by four singers at the peak of their powers. Coming after India, but before the split, The White Album was the sound of John, Paul, George and Ringo throwing everything they'd learned into their musical blender. This major work bursts with variety, creativity, experimentation, and the genius of The Beatles during one of their most intense, fertile, periods. It is a timeless album, yet very much of its time. Its 30 songs veer from the populist stomp of Back in the USSR and the mind-bending Happiness is a Warm Gun to the melodious sorrow of While My Guitar Gently Weeps, the ska pop fun of Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, and the hard rock prototype Helter Skelter.

It was basically music's worst-kept secret, but now it's official... The Flaming Lips are releasing a full cover album of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band. According to Stereogum, the album will be titled With A Little Help From My Fwends and will drop on Oct. 28 via Warner Bros. Records.

Record of the Week

Gets heavy play this week!

The White Album

The Beatles is the ninth studio album by English rock group the Beatles, a double album released on 22 November 1968.

Release date: November 22, 196

Labels: Apple Records, Capitol Records

Awards: Grammy Hall of Fame Award

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Back in the U.S.S.R.

2:43

2

Dear Prudence

3:56

3

Glass Onion

2:18

4

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

3:09

5

Wild Honey Pie

0:53

6

The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill

3:14

7

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

4:45

8

Happiness Is a Warm Gun

2:43

9

Martha My Dear

2:29

10

I’m So Tired

2:03

11

Blackbird

2:18

12

Piggies

2:01

13

Rocky Raccoon

3:33

14

Don’t Pass Me By

3:50

15

Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?

1:41

16

I Will

1:46

17

Julia

2:54

18

Birthday

2:45

19

Yer Blues

4:02

20

Mother Nature's Son

2:49

21

Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey

2:27

22

Sexy Sadie

3:17

23

Helter Skelter

4:31

24

Long, Long, Long

3:05

25

Revolution 1

4:16

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Honey Pie

2:42

27

Savoy Truffle

2:56

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Cry Baby Cry

3:13

29

Revolution 9

8:14

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Good Night

3:12

17 Shocking Facts About The Beatles

None of The Beatles Could Read Music

The Beatles are talked about as one of the best bands of all times but surprisingly none of The Beatles could even read music! Although they could play the guitar, and wrote their own lyrics, they never learned how to read music.

They did know the chords and knew where middle C was on a piano. In a 1980 interview with Playboy, John Lennon said: “I think Paul and Ringo stand up with any of the rock musicians. Not technically great — none of us are technical musicians. None of us could read music. None of us can write it. But as pure musicians, as inspired humans to make the noise, they are as good as anybody”

Paul is the only one of The Beatles who attempted to learn how to read music. He tried to take piano lessons from his girlfriend’s mother but did not have the time or the patience. None of the others even tried.

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